Effects of dredged sediment disposal on the coastal marine macrobenthic assemblage in Southern Brazil

The aim of this study was to evaluate the deposition impact of dredged material from Patos lagoon estuary on a benthic macroinvertebrate assemblage structure in an adjacent coastal marine area. Nine sampling stations were chosen at random in the disposal area, and nine others in the same way in an a...

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Main Authors: L. G. Angonesi, C. E. Bemvenuti, M. S. Gandra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Internacional de Ecologia
Series:Brazilian Journal of Biology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-69842006000300005&lng=en&tlng=en